I'm new here so I'm a little confused. I understood this to mean someone was posting youtube videos here, made by various people. Youtube videos are shared all the time everywhere, and even embeded on websites. I've never heard of this as being wrong or spam. In fact, some videos go viral as a result.
How is it different here? Am I missing something? I posted a guys youtube video here that I came across that I thought was cool. I did it just as if it were Facebook. Was I wrong?
Please help me understand.
Steemit has a voluntary community police system, that's what's different.
On Twitter, if someone posts your content without permission, you can downvote their post, and maybe complain about it, and nothing much of anything will happen.
Here on Steemit, especially since there's a monetary element, if someone posts your content without permission, you can flag them, and it affects their post dramatically.
If you are posting other people's content without commentary or accreditation, you are playing with fire.
So basically if you say something about how you found the content, like I was watching youtube videos and I thought this was cool, cute, or funny etc., you're acknowledging it's not your content are you ok? As opposed to posting w/o comment or obviously trying to give the impression it's yours.
People share content everyday, and don't get permission to do it. Probably because if they had to do that they wouldn't share, too time consuming, and it links back to the creator, not the sharer anyway. Videos would never go viral if everyone had to ask permission to share. Most content creators actually want people to share their stuff to get it out to a larger audience, so I don't want to follow outside rules that may cause problems.
Maybe the difference is here the sharer can get a benefit that is not available on other platforms? Or if the content creator happens to also be on steemit?